POZ February 2000
POZ February 2000
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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HIV: Behind The Music
80s pop star Paul “Boom Boom” Lekakis goes back to his room for a tell-all about life in -- and out of -- the strobe-lit closet.
A Star Is Torn
The fur flies as Tinseltown’s favorite causes lock horns over animal research.
Free Your Mind
... and with yoga the rest will follow.
Everyday Grace
The intimate lens of photographer William Gedney
Inside the Issue
Inside The Disco Inferno
When disco burst on the scene nearly 30 years ago, it was the tribal beat for a new generation of gay men.
Marriage Vows
Ultrika Alexandrine Uiras and Hans Kharuchab are the first openly HIV positive couple to tie the knot in their southern Africa country.
House of Trials
Drug companies looking for subjects to enroll in clinical trials just love prisons.
In The Works
Five of the nation’s most influential health groups are urging state leaders to coordinate efforts to make sterile syringes available to...
Mailbox
The November 1999 POZ was the best issue I’ve seen in a while. I guess activism is in vogue again.
NEG/POS
The New York Supreme Court ruled against NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani in November.
Shout Out
“The United States denies health care to more of its citizens than any other industrialized nation.”
Getting Testy
Abbott Laboratories was under the microscope again in November when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) levied a $100 million fine.
Love Me
Lonely, baby? Cyber-cupids are hard at work finding a date for you.
Shout Out
“The United States denies health care to more of its citizens than any other industrialized nation.”
The Times, They Are a Changin’
The AIDS beat at The New York Times died quietly in October.
Say What?
“‘Dental dams! Did anyone ever use them?’ I said, ‘Walk away from the dental damn’”
Catching Up With?
(POZ June 1997)
Never A Dull Momentum
I hurried into the Manhattan Toy Center ballroom to hear the evening’s featured speaker, Star Jones of ABC’s The View.
All Aboard The Love Boat
I’m en route from LA to Miami, where I will embark on the Center for Positive Connections’ HeteroCruise.
Milestones
William Wilson, editor and author, died October 18 of AIDS.
Special Ed
Doug Ireland turns his eagle eye on Vermont, where a truly unusual Senate candidate weighs in to deserve HIVers’ support.
Of Dykes & Data
If a lesbian gets infected and no one counts her, does she have HIV? Beth Hastie on the hush around girl-to-girl transmission
Dead on Approval
An FDA panel surprised advocates by refusing to rubber-stamp adefovir, Gilead’s new anti-HIV drug. Dave Gilden sees this first-ever rebuff as...
Take the Cake
Valentine’s Day giving you the wedding-bell blues? Share a sparkling cider and sobfest with gal pal Emily Carter.
Dances With Woolf
Michael Cunningham’s The Hours proved an AIDS novel can be great art.
Sweet Chariot
Nelson Figueroa is a fighter: No crippling myelopathy is going to cramp his style.
Heart Beat
Another bump has arisen on the HAART road to PWA recovery.
Hitting Below The Belt
Often misdiagnosed and always unnerving, myelopathy may soon have knockout treatments.
She’s A Big Girl Now
Mom Marlene’s megadose of TLC helps Margaretha DeJesus stay healthy
To Good To Be The Flu
This cold keeps the hottest bod Down Under
Herb Of The Month
Chamomile
Prevention Suspension
On HAART, your CD4s have ballooned. Is it time to bail on your prophylactic drugs? The feds weigh in with updated guidelines.
Comfort Zone
I can’t live without my lip salves.
Easy as C&E
Could popping a few vitamins reduce the miserable side effects of the standard therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV)?
Shelf Life
A user-friendly primer for everyone who has sex.
2.07.84: Eureka!
This thing you’re looking at? It’s the virus that causes AIDS.
